Fatwax

He's gone now, so whatever. Just get over it.

How the hell can you have a go at Boro's support? We only got 45,000 for one of our games. It's a disgrace according to most papers and they tend to be pretty on the ball.

Haha it was the age that I went to my first match, had the strip bought for me and I fell in love with the club from then. I was always going to end up supporting Newcastle with my family.

...do you think you'll ever see Newcastle: Win the Carling Cup Win the FA Cup Win the Premier League Win the UEFA Cup (or equivalent) Win the Champions League Just curious to see how much people really believe we'll see us lift some silverware. I'm only 23 and I've been supporting the club properly since about the age of 4 I'd say. I really don't know if I'll ever see us achieve any of the above.. but most fans I talk to seem to think that we definitely will. What do you think?

I'm not going to argue that we looked awful and it was looking inevitable that it we were in a relegation fight til the end - the Blackburn game springs to mind where we tried and tried and they got a goal from a counter attack at the death. I'm not going to argue because I'd be wrong. Like I said before, having Martins & Viduka come back was a massive, massive boost for us and we didn't start to look crap until Viduka was replaced at half time against Chelsea at which point we went don't by 2 goals. The fact is though that Keegan made a formation to accommodate the very best players and got them playing together very quickly. You could argue that anybody could have done this but playing Michael Owen as an attacking midfielder from deep? I hadn't heard anybody ever suggest this on here, or any other manager bring it up whilst working with him for that matter. Everybody on here were saying that they couldn't wait to get rid of Owen until Keegan gave him a new position and then the opinion changed amongst a fair few and his potential in a good attacking system became apparent. You're right that key players coming back got the ball rolling but to say that Keegan had no part in it is just stupid. I'm not a blind Keegan follower, but I'll give the man credit when he deserves it. That goes for any player in the squad aswell.

It took time to bring the change about FFS. He had to get the players minds switched from nagative football to open football. Birmingham was the turning point, where got a draw but could have won it. Libertine always sniping at KK, any little chance. Its ok tho, you just bend history to suit your argument. it took time to get 3 very good players back (and staying fit) to take the team forward in matches and score goals. the front 3 took the pressure off the s*** midfield the same as a good midfield will take the pressure off a defence. simple as that. Obviously the manager doesn't deserve any credit at all for changing the whole shape of the team though. to some extent. "playing your best players" is what its called at other clubs. dropping smith and ameobi to play martins and viduka isnt rocket science. You're absolutely pathetic. martins or viduka didnt start a game for keegan before the birmingham match and then they come back in and we start doing well. did keegan "change their mentality" or did we just get 2 very decent/vital players back in place of 2 s*** ones? the keegan thing. obviously. The players coming back was obviously instrumental but it was Keegans tactics that got us the results we did. Not many managers would have had the balls to play Owen, Martins & Viduka together. Allardyce certainly didn't.

We were terrible last game, it's just West Brom were even worse. This is a terrible first XI. Pathetic. That is because we are terrible, but at least we got players in an around the box last game, which is what we really need. Martins andJonas are for carpet teams playing from the back that will try to dominate possession, but we can't play like that. Don't talk soft. We played like that when Keegan was in charge. We play better with Jonas & Martins in the team than when they're out of the team. I can understand Martins not being involved but why Jonas isn't is just beyond me.

We were terrible last game, it's just West Brom were even worse. This is a terrible first XI. Pathetic.

I just realised that I didn't watch the match and it could have been just a terrible ref. This the case?

It's a Derby match, kinda explains it a bit.

He tried to sell up because that's what we as fans wanted, he refused to return calls when Man City's new owners were interested in us, that was before Keegan left. I thought he just asked for a load of money, which can be read in two ways.

HAHAHAHA SPURS.

I reckon he's faking it.

Gomes dead.

Gomes fucks up for Spurs.

Channel 5 is shit at everything to do with football. Commentary, angles.. the lot.

We'd agreed to sign him before he'd even travelled to Spain. I vaguely remember the co-owned thing, Danubio had 50%, Valencia had the other 50% iirc. This is what I thought, but I had a quick look through the original thread and on a few sites and couldn't find anything about it.

No, I don't think he was actually. He played for some Uruguayan club who then lent him to Monaco if I recall correctly. After his loan term Valencia got him on a long term contract. Aye you're right, I just checked and can't find anything about him being co-owned. God knows where I got that from then. I'm with everyone else then.. what are Valencia playing about at? Ey? Ey?

He was co-owned by another club. Valencia bought out their part of the contract and I imagine their aim was to loan him to us and if he did well they'd sell him to us for a decent profit. That's generally what goes on.

Diving has always existed in football. It's hardly a new thing. The only difference is that we can re-watch the same dive over and over from loads of different angles.

I love our U18 and reserve team. At least something at this club doesn't leave me depressed and empty.

I think we all know what would have happened to be fair, given that we finished on 43 points with him terrifying, isn't it.

Yeah, it was only 6 through injury. The majority was ACN. He was hardly ever injured in his first season aswell. God knows what would have happened if he had been.